How to calculate the height of a MultiCell/writeHTMLCell in TCPDF?
I try to create a PDF with multiple pages and need to calculate the height of each individual element (MultiCell) in advance to prepare for a page break. According to the documentation there are a couple of functions out there like GetCharWidth/GetStringWidth to support me in doing it on my own, but besides a potential performance lost I probably will not do it the right anyway. Suggestions to achieve my goal in a more elegant way?
Reference: TCPDF
Answer
I GOT it :D!!!!!
Create another pdf2 object
// pdf2 set x margin to pdf1's xmargin, but y margin to zero
// to make sure that pdf2 has identical settings, you can clone the object (after initializing the main pdf object)
$pdf2 = clone $pdf;
pdf2->addpage
pdf2->writeCell
$height = pdf2->getY()
pdf2->deletePage(pdf2->getPage())
pdf1->checkPageBreak($height);
pdf1->writeCell()
W00tness :D